While the show will feature work by Jim Sudduth, R. A. Miller, Tubby Brown, Tom D., Willie Jinks, Mose Tolliver, Annie Tolliver, Butch Anthony, LaVon Williams, and Rosemary Pittman, it focuses on four folk artists from the South, Melanie "Mel" McGinnis, John Henry Toney, Alyne Harris, and James "Buddy" Snipes.

Mel began painting shortly after she was incarcerated in 1987. In a penitentiary just outside of Atlanta, Georgia, Mel found solace by delving into her memories of childhood and putting them onto paper. Limited by her supplies but not by her imagination, she paints on file folders and bits of card, using markers, glitter, glue, acrylic, anything that she can get a hold of. She also paints of her experience with the legal system, which, as can be seen in "A Money Hungry Lawyer Will Steal The Diamonds Off Of A Rattlesnake", she doesn't hold in high regard.

John Henry Toney's last year of school was the 7th grade, 1939, in rural Russell County, Alabama. When he was unable to answer a question properly in class, he would draw what he thought the answer was on to pieces of paper. He has kept some of those pieces of paper for over fifty years. In 1994, he plowed up a turnip with a face on it, and "That face in that turnip was a sign to me, and I knew the Lord wanted me to start to draw again." Drawing mostly with markers onto paper and wood paneling, he depicts scenes from the Bible, his rural surroundings, as well as his intelligent and witty slant on life, seen in "A Politics Wagon", showing a wagon with two mules pulling in opposite directions. He signs all of his work "Mr. John Henry Toney", including his age, address, and phone number. "If I got paid for my ideas, I would never hafta leave home."

When Alyne Harris was growing up in Gainesville, Florida, she and her sisters would play in a nearby cemetery where members of their family where buried. There it was easy for her to imagine herself in the presence of spirits, and she would draw angels in the mud while at play with her sisters. Always creative as a child, Alyne is driven to pant, often painting all night after she gets home from her domestic service jobs. A visionary painter, Alyne's pallet and placement are chosen as she paints, using globs of oil on canvas and paper, and she will paint well into the night until she is finished. She depicts angels, devils, and scenes of people in rural life, at work or at ease.

Living alone in a three room wood frame house with no running water, and no plumbing near Pittsview, Alabama, James "Buddy" Snipes makes "things". Growing up one of twelve children, Buddy began making toys as a child as there wasn't any money to buy them with. Working labor jobs in rural Alabama as an adult, he soon learned to fix fences and furniture. "I made wheelbarrows and wagons, too." He made these of tree limbs and scrap lumber and sold them to his neighbors. About ten years ago, Buddy began to make "things" that he liked. These constructions are made from roots, limbs, signs, cans; whatever he finds that can trigger his imagination. He also paints with house paint onto roofing tin, framing them with tree limbs so that they can be hung up on a wall. These pictures depict rural scenes as well as people and memories from his past, such as "Sudie…we played 'house'."